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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.


John Ciardi

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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
ARTHUR C. COXE You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone
JOHN CIARDI You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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RUTH NEGGA Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yours...
BERNHARD GOETZ You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to...
BRADLEY WHITFORD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys ...
GEORGE CLOONEY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for e...
CYNDI LAUPER If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a ...
JACK GLEESON Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don'...
HARRY BROWNE I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don...
MACY GRAY It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need...
NICK HORNBY The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone...
SANDY KOUFAX The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don&#...
JACK RUBY Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why ...
RAINN WILSON I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I r...
MICHAEL IAN BLACK Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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JOHN C. MAXWELL If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do thing...
LOU HOLTZ One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don'...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to wo...
OGDEN NASH If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don&#...
MELANIE CHISHOLM There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the boo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don'...
OPRAH WINFREY To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. ...
WOODY ALLEN To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Th...
WOODY ALLEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
ADAM LAMBERT Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction....
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WINNIE HARLOW I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h...
RACHEL ZOE I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d...
AVIVA I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
CRISTIANO RONALDO I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot o...
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MARINO BACCARINI Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes,...
DAVID PACKARD You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent huma...
MALCOLM X Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you ...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
NATHAN KIRSH If you are dissatisfied with what you have,
Then you will never be satisfied with what you have...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.
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SANIA MIRZA Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
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RACHAEL RAY We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
EDWARD DAHLBERG I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
GARY COHN I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin...
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JESSICA SIMPSON I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the p...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel...
SHARON SALZBERG Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no m...
HUGO CHAVEZ Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use t...
BENNY BLANCO To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five ...
CARL HAGELIN You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
GRETA GARBO Until you get enough of enough, the "enough" that is never enough, you dare not quit! If your good i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectati...
JULIANA HATFIELD Don't be a smart ass!
Smartass die first!!
DEYTH BANGER When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
ADAM RAPP There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would ...
ELLEN DEGENERES I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it...
KEKE PALMER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
PAUL MULDOON Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self...
JUSTICE SMITH To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination
CARDINALDE BERNIS As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
ADAM LEVINE Not to be negative, but I think the biggest lesson is don't trust anyone.
JEFF BAENA If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?
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So...
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JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations.
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JOHN LOCKE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT